Monica Royer, founder and CEO, Monica + Andy: “I literally came into the hospital without thinking about [founding my business] and left the hospital on a mission.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneurship runs in Monica Royer’s family. Her brother Andy founded Bonobos, the menswear company that changed the retail game. And Monica took notes on his journey before carving out a space of her own. She went on to found Monica + Andy, a company that makes organic baby blankets and clothing. This week, Monica joined us to share how she’s created a mentor network and how she got her business off the ground. In this episode, Monica shares how she pivoted from the pharmaceutical industry to clothing (7:27), when she knew she had to act on her idea (think: in the hospital) (8:24), and how she’s cultivated a network of mentors beyond her own family (17:14).

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0:00.0	I literally came into the hospital without thinking about it and left the hospital on
0:10.9	a mission.
0:12.3	That would be three years in the making because I had a
0:14.1	newborn but I was on a mission. I'm like there's got to be something better.
0:17.0	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:23.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:27.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:29.0	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:35.0	We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began
0:39.8	on a couch. episode with our guest and Carly will be back next week. Today Monica Royer
0:55.0	joins us on Skimmed from the couch. She is the founder and CEO of Monica and
1:00.3	Andy, an organic baby and children's clothing company.
1:03.8	Monica had the idea to launch her company, literally from the hospital after she gave birth.
1:09.7	Whoof, with the mission of being the most thoughtful children's brand ever created and as we'll get into
1:16.5	entrepreneurship definitely runs in her family. Monica thank you for joining us today
1:21.6	welcome to skim from the Couch.
1:23.8	Danielle, thank you so much for having me.
1:25.7	I'm super excited to be here.
1:27.3	Thank you.
1:28.3	So I just want to say that literally,
1:31.4	I think one of the days after I had told our team that I was pregnant.
1:37.0	I had a call with Monica and I was like only slightly panicked about the fact that I was
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